IT Innovation Contest

A team-based contest for creative IT solutions

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Information Technology at UCSF selected 5 proposals for funding. The winning teams had seven weeks to work on the projects. An awards ceremony took place on October 12, 2012 as part of the IT@UCSF Sharecase conference at Mission Bay campus.

Have you ever found a group of experts on UCSF Profiles that you wanted to bring into a conversation, but didn’t want to inundate with long email threads? Have you ever found someone on UCSF Profiles who is doing work on a topic of interest and you wish you could “follow” them so you’d be notified automatically of any new publications they put out?

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT. Managing unique scientific research materials is a problem faced by almost all labs at UCSF. In addition, sharing between labs is difficult since there is no common inventory system, or method of keeping potential collaborators up to date on the materials available among UCSF labs. Here we describe an easy solution for sharing lab resources among collaborating labs and larger networks. In short, we will build a Drupal module that will allow scientists to communicate their sharable reagents.

Synopsis: Develop a suite of datafeed-driven disease-specific UCSF Twitter feeds (e.g. @UCSFDiabetes) to promote and disseminate UCSF disease-specific research more widely and engage thousands of members ofdiseasecommunities (patients, family members, students, funders, health care providers, policymakers). Apply social media outreach best practices to extend reach. Project builds on a successful demo, and is designed to be potentially scalable to dozens, perhaps hundreds, of disease areas, to support existing campus communications work indisease-specificcommunities.

Goal: Streamline employee on-boarding process by establishing seamless and automated communication to IT support units within minutes of when new employee data has been entered into the HR OLPPS system. This is to enable quick turn around for providing access to UCSF and departmental IT resources. The aim is also to enable notification for when an employee is departing from the University so IT staff are able to proactively engage in following exit procedures such as recovering equipment, securing data and obtaining the signed Electronic Information Consent form.

While there are apps to show the shuttle schedule and maps to show where a fewof the shuttles are on maps, there is no useful resource that allows someonewaiting in front of a shuttle stop to really know when the next shuttle willcome or will come at all (just kidding).

Current technology has proven that this is a solvable problem and this appwill allow thousands of shuttle users to gain extra time and not have towait for the shuttle and even more importantly, not miss an early shuttle.

UCSF has a very large population of mice and many hours are spent byresearch groups tracking their colonies. Currently, mouse room datais collected in a variety of ways (by paper, having to use a computerthat is across the room, laptops) none of which is very efficient.

While their is a need for an enterprise solution to mouse roommanagement, allowing users to use their cellphones, ipod touches,ipads, etc. to capture the data into a database directly will helpwith this front end process.

Our goal is to integrate & leverage existing UCSF resources to change (for the better) how our community interacts with its data thereby bringing file sharing and collaboration @UCSF to the future all while minimizing risk exposure.

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UCSF Open Proposals is managed by the UCSF
Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), part of the Clinical and Translational Science Award program funded by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (Grant Number UL1 TR000004) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).